Muse Glimmer-30B vs Qwen3.8 Flash Next: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Glimmer-30B is developed by Meta, while Qwen3.8 Flash Next comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Flash Next is the larger model at roughly 180 billion parameters, against 30 billion for Muse Glimmer-30B.
The two models share 5 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads on 5 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.8 Flash Next scores 35.9% against 22.0%; CharXiv-R, where Qwen3.8 Flash Next scores 90.6% against 78.8%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Glimmer-30B sits at 65.1% and Qwen3.8 Flash Next at 67.1%.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next is available through an API at $0.16 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Muse Glimmer-30B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Muse Glimmer-30B | Qwen3.8 Flash Next |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 10, 2026 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | 30B | 180B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.16 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 65.1% | 67.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 22.0% | 35.9% |
| CharXiv-R | 78.8% | 90.6% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 51.2% | 62.5% |
| GPQA | 83.5% | 91.7% |
| IFBench | 77.0% | 81.3% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Glimmer-30B — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Flash Next — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 8/10/2026.
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